10-08-2013, 01:47 PM
Tony Szamboti Wrote:[
The horizontal propagation was extraordinarily rapid across the 98th floor (about 0.7 seconds), where no core columns had been affected by the aircraft and no more than two perimeter columns, as only the very end of the wing hit that floor. Doesn't that give you pause in your arbitrary assignment of severe column load capacity degradation?
Tony,
I can't say how fast the horizontal propagation of across 98 was. I didn't measure it and wouldn't know how!
Others have extracted data from the vids and coupled with the structural have reached different conclusions than you have... and have refuted the very data and findings you assert as fact.
My understanding is informed by my own informal viewing of the collapse (not data) and the data which others have gathered and "explained" which is consistent with my reading.
You conception may be possible, but I see no evidence for it and some which seems to refute it.
People can study this and decide what's going on.
Many who question the US gov take a default position that the gov lied and did a CD. I don't think that most who hold this position have carefully studied the matter or even have the technical background to understand it or to know what they are seeing. They simply parrot what they read or believe to be true. As I don't see the official story as true... I certainly don't see the need for a false dichotomy. Some things are black and white... others are shades of gray.